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| NI News | Your Global, Customized Source for Company and Product News, Events, and Support | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top Stories | March 21, 2006 |
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| Directly Connect to Popular Motion Drives, Sensors | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The new NI PCI-6230 isolated M Series DAQ board features analog and digital I/O lines with built-in digital isolation for direct connectivity to industrial sensors. The new NI PCI-7390 position (pulse) command motion controller with built-in isolation offers direct connectivity to popular motion drives and provides advanced synchronization capabilities with NI vision and DAQ hardware. Learn more. |
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| Using Microsoft Windows Vista with NI LabVIEW | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Windows Vista is the latest version of the popular Microsoft Windows operating system. After its release, Windows Vista is bound to find its way onto most desktops and laptops at home and in the office. This article offers a brief introduction to Windows Vista and suggests benefits for developers creating virtual instruments using National Instruments LabVIEW software. Learn more. |
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Company and Product News
Bringing Embedded Design to the Masses Graphical system design is a revolutionary approach to meeting design challenges that blends intuitive graphical programming and flexible, commercial off-the-shelf hardware to help you more efficiently design, prototype, and deploy embedded systems. With this approach, you can use a single environment across all stages of design to increase productivity, save money, and deliver embedded technology to the domain expert. Learn more. Benchmarking LabVIEW Real-Time FieldPoint Systems National Instruments FieldPoint and Compact FieldPoint hardware enable you to create reliable monitoring and control systems. When you implement these systems using an embedded controller running LabVIEW Real-Time, you can attain even faster loop rates, creating a more responsive control system. Learn more. Meet Rigid Test Specification Requirements with New PXI Power Supply You now can source voltage or current with high accuracy from a single PXI slot with the new NI PXI-4110 programmable DC power supply. The new power supply exceeds the accuracy of other PXI power supplies with high-resolution setpoints and readback measurement capability while reducing test times with programming speeds less than 1 ms. Learn more. NI Ethernet-Based Devices Offer Expansion I/O for PCs, PACs The new NI cFP-1804 four-slot and the cFP-1808 eight-slot interfaces offer five standard protocols for open connectivity with industrial platforms and make it even easier to integrate more than 30 National Instruments Compact FieldPoint industrial I/O modules into your systems with industry standards including TCP/IP, Modbus, and Optomux. Learn more. New NI TestStand 3.5 Industry-Leading Features for Test NI TestStand Version 3.5 helps you quickly develop and deploy automated test systems. NI TestStand reflects the National Instruments commitment to delivering industry-leading test management software to provide a commercial off-the-shelf solution for meeting today's test challenges - from the growing complexity of devices to the increasing demand for higher throughput and reduced costs. Learn more. Development Resources Tutorial: RF and Wireless Communications Systems This tutorial provides an introduction to RF, wireless, and high-frequency signals and systems. Explore topics from Marconi and the first wireless transmissions to relevant NI RF products. View this tutorial. Getting Started with Motion Control E-Kit Download the Getting Started with Motion Control resource kit to learn the fundamentals of motion control and techniques to implement advanced motion control systems. The e-kit includes a white paper, a tutorial, an application note, and more. Download this e-kit. Visual Basic 6.0 and USB Data Acquisition Demonstration Using NI Measurement Studio, learn how to create plug-and-play measurements that include data logging, analysis, and presentation. Walk through creating a USB data acquisition application from start to finish in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0. View this demo. Application Design Patterns: State Machines Get an overview of state machines, one of the fundamental architectures LabVIEW developers use to quickly build applications. You can use state machines to implement complex decision-making algorithms represented by state diagrams or flow charts. Learn more. Tutorial: Using the cFP-1808 with Any PC or PAC In the first half of this tutorial, learn how to add expansion I/O to a PC system from the cFP-1808 network interface and then view a demo of how to access this I/O with LabVIEW. In the second half, see how to add expansion I/O from a programmable automation controller (PAC) and view a demonstration of how to add I/O on NI Compact FieldPoint real-time controllers and CompactRIO. View this tutorial. Events Webcast: PXI for Communications Test Learn how you can use the PXI platform to test multiple wireless standards. The Begin by focusing on the PXI platform and then explore a software-defined approach for RF and microwave testing. View this Webcast. Webcast: Develop Bluetooth Applications with LabVIEW Learn how you can wirelessly communicate with PDAs, desktop computers, measurement instruments, and other Bluetooth-enabled devices using the new Bluetooth Compatibility VIs in LabVIEW. See how to configure your system for Bluetooth compatibility and how to establish communication with other devices. View this Webcast. Webcast: Advances in LabVIEW Instrument Control Shorter development and test times can greatly increase your productivity. Explore how National Instruments is improving LabVIEW instrument control for both the novice and advanced user. Featured LabVIEW 8 technologies include the Instrument Driver Finder for faster driver downloads and the new LabVIEW "project-style" instrument driver for reduced development time. View this Webcast. Webcast: LabVIEW -- More Power, Less Programming Discover how LabVIEW graphical programming saves you time and money in developing your applications. View demos on LabVIEW dataflow programming; interactive measurement I/O assistants; and Real-Time, FPGA, and PDA targets that deliver both the power and ease of use for developing your applications. View this Webcast. Webcast: PID for Process Control NI has a complete line of industrial control and measurement products for applications including embedded industrial control, machine monitoring, visual inspection, and industrial data acquisition on industrial PCs. Learn how LabVIEW Real-Time empowers you to implement advanced functionality such as analog calculations and computation, vibration monitoring, and more. View this Webcast. Support Writing Win32 DLLs and Calling Them from LabVIEW LabVIEW for Windows 95 and Windows NT has a call library function that you can use to access 32-bit DLLs. This document provides a brief introduction to creating simple 32-bit DLLs and calling them from LabVIEW under Windows 95 and NT. Learn more. PXI Express FAQ Get answers to your frequently asked questions about PXI Express, including how PXI Express compares to other buses in bandwith and latency, the different types of slots in a PXI Express chassis, and more. Learn more. Example Code: Continuously Acquire an Analog Waveform with Visual C/C++ This example uses NI-DAQ functions in Visual C to continuously read a waveform from one analog input channel using internal timing. Download this example. |
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